{"product_id":"realist-ecstasy-religion-race-and-performance-in-american-literature-hardback-9781479803323","title":"Realist Ecstasy; Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (Hardback) 9781479803323","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRealist Ecstasy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion, Race, and Performance in American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLindsay V. Reckson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479803323\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 22 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.704 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book's significance lies in Lindsay Reckson's ability to rethink literary tropes and tactics through a profound attention to embodiment—bodily gesture, comportment, performance, reenactment. \u003ci\u003eRealist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcstasy \u003c\/i\u003etraces how bodies come undone into practices that threaten the very category of the real. Theoretically fascinating and solidly grounded, Reckson's work places performance in conversation with photography and the literary, forcing each to account for one another across her archival ensemble. - Rebecca Schneider, author of Performing Remains\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theater Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eExplores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism's relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices—including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film—Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice. Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference, while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance: its production of new and immanent forms of being beside. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Across her readings of Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen, among others, Reckson triangulates secularism, realism, and racial formation in the post-Reconstruction moment. Realist Ecstasy shows how post-Reconstruction realist texts mobilized gestures—especially the gestures associated with religious ecstasy—to racialize secularism itself. Reckson offers us a distinctly new vision of American realism as a performative practice, a sustained account of how performance lives in and through literary archives, and a rich sense of how closely secularization and racialization were linked in Jim Crow America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591042134296,"sku":"9781479803323","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/realist-ecstasy-religion-race-and-performance-in-american-literature-hardback-9781479803323","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}